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Dix, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Dix, Fort: see Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. ...

Fort Lennox

(Encyclopedia)Fort Lennox: see Île-aux-Noix.

Fort Mims

(Encyclopedia)Fort Mims, temporary stockade near the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. It was the scene of a massacre (Aug. 30, 1813); William Weatherford led a Native American force in the killing of...

Fort Myers

(Encyclopedia)Fort Myers, city (2020 pop. 86,395), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee River, near the Gulf of Mexico; founded 1850, inc. 1905. It has a t...

Fort Polk

(Encyclopedia)Fort Polk, U.S. army post, 200,000 acres (80,937 hectares), SW La.; est. 1941 and named for the Rev. Leonidas Polk. It is a major army warm-weather training center. ...

Fort Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Fort Thomas, city (2020 pop. 15,999), Campbell co., N Ky., on the Ohio River, a residential suburb S of Cincinnati, Ohio; inc. 1867. The city was named ...

Fort William

(Encyclopedia)Fort William: see Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada. ...

Fort-Bayard

(Encyclopedia)Fort-Bayard: see Zhanjiang, China. ...

Fort Benning

(Encyclopedia)Fort Benning, U.S. army post, 189,000 acres (76,500 hectares), W Ga., S of Columbus; est. 1918. One of the largest army posts in the United States, it is the nation's largest infantry training center ...

Fort Bragg

(Encyclopedia)Fort Bragg, U.S. army base, 11,136 acres (4,507 hectares), E N.C., N of Fayetteville; est. 1918. Originally an artillery post, it is now the principal U.S. army airborne-training center and the site o...
 

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